Focus: Through Cinema We Shall Rise!
Overview of films
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Tiger Talk: Through Cinema We Shall Rise!
Researchers and a filmmaker trace the Afro-Asian Film Festival’s history and explore articulations of the ‘Bandung Spirit’. -
A Phu and His Wife
Loc Mai | 73' | Vietnam | None
Young lovers break free from the feudal-imperial complex in a tale of revolutionary romance. -
Ballad of the Cart
Yamamoto Satsuo | 145' | Japan | None
A peasant couple’s journey through five turbulent decades of Japanese history. -
Freedom for Ghana + Law of Baseness
(Post-)colonial celebration and indictment: two documentaries about Africa. -
Five Golden Flowers
Wang Jiayi | 105' | China | None
Searching for his beloved, a paramour keeps encountering her namesakes in a delightful romantic musical. -
Four Rivers Six Ranges
Shenpenn Khymsar | 132' | India | World premiere
An electrifying period actioner chronicling an armed resistance to the occupation of Tibet. -
Freedom for Ghana
Sean Graham | 32' | Ghana | None
Independence Day celebrations in Ghana, 1957. A nation awakens to life and liberty. -
Law of Baseness
Aleksandr Medvedkin | 49' | Soviet Union | None
A tour through Africa forms a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indictment of the West. -
The Open Door
Henry Barakat | 103' | Egypt | None
An adaptation of Latifa al-Zayyat’s iconic coming-of-age novel about a woman’s political and sexual awakening. -
The Red Detachment of Women
Xie Jin | 92' | China | None
Former captive servant joins an all-women army troop in a fierce feminist ballad of the revolution. -
Santi-Vina
“Marut” (Thavi Na Bangchang) | 117' | Thailand | None
Star-crossed lovers run up against social constraints in a gentle, timeless tale of doomed romance. -
Serfs
Li Jun | 93' | China | None
Bonded labourers battle oppressive feudal overlords with the help of Mao’s benevolent soldiers, in this propaganda film.